Senior Product Engineer — Payments Platform Backend

Wise; City Of London; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wise Benefits

Job summary

Wise is seeking a Senior Product Engineer who enjoys understanding a customer's problem and taking ownership of how it performs in production. This hands-on role offers substantial autonomy to move work forward, alongside colleagues who contribute through design reviews and pairing.

You will design, develop, and operate backend services in Java/Spring Boot within a microservices architecture, applying domain-driven design and leading event-driven work with Kafka.

Qualifications

• Experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Backend engineering with relational DBs and event-driven systems.
• Product mindset; understand customer problems behind your work.
• Own work with autonomy and collaboration.
• Strong cross-team communication.
• Curiosity about the business domain and partners' use of products.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java/Spring Boot services.
• Apply domain-driven design for robust solutions.
• Lead event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging systems.
• Architect, design, and optimise PostgreSQL databases for performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support partner integrations and expand the Wise payment platform globally.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Product mindset

Autonomy

Collaboration

Curiosity

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Job description

Wise is seeking a Senior Product Engineer who enjoys understanding a customer's problem and taking ownership of how it performs in production. This hands-on role offers substantial autonomy to move work forward, alongside colleagues who contribute through design reviews and pairing.

You will design, develop, and operate backend services in Java/Spring Boot within a microservices architecture, applying domain-driven design and leading event-driven work with Kafka.